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"headstone" is a stone that is placed at the head or top of a grave to mark the burial place of a person.
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Row upon row
of headstones in French, Belgian and Dutch cemeteries attest to our shared sacrifice in two world wars.
In the late 1970's, her career began when she photographed the words «Mother» and «Father» engraved
on headstones in the Bolinas cemetery.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked the State Police to investigate vandalism of
headstones in a small Jewish cemetery in Rochester, citing a recent «dramatic increase in acts of hate and intolerance.»
Thirty years ago, when my mother died, my father purchased cemetery lots and
headstones for our entire family.
During his quick trip to Israel, Cuomo made his first comments following the toppling of
headstones at a Jewish cemetery this weekend in Brooklyn.
The cost itself does vary from state to state and there are other expenses such
as headstones and services which may not be included in the average as well.
Go all the way to the back of the Graveyard to find a large
headstone with the Triforce in front of it.
The bodies looked to be buried on the same day as others in the nearby Bedlam cemetery with
headstones reading 1665, further leading scientists to believe those in the burial pit were killed by the plague.
You'll earn the Mirror Shield as you complete the Earth Temple on
Headstone Island (Section G3).
She even went to the local cemetery to copy names from
headstones from the 19th century to compile an authentic list of names students could use.
It is a prototype
headstone designed to deny vandals, and those with more sinister motives, their pleasure.
We see him practicing his golf swing at an ominously empty driving range at night, driving past the rows of
white headstones at a military cemetery, sitting alone in a hotel room imagining his daughters playing in the backyard.
The unique headboard forms suggested not just bedframes, but confining fences, prison cell bars, even
cemetery headstones.
Few pupils will forget walking through the trenches, standing surrounded
by headstones in Tyne Cot or listening as the bugles play the «Last Post» under the Menin Gate.
Students take new names during the experience — one teacher scoured
old headstones in a local cemetery and came up with gems such as Ezekiel and Hezekiah — and parents are called on to share handcrafting talents.
In 1992, Neruda's body was moved from Santiago to his Isla Negra home, where he is buried alongside his wife, with their graves facing the ocean and a mast -
like headstone befitting a man who loved the sea.
Many
headstones bear engravings of miners who perished during Telluride's heyday in the late 1800's.
Transamerica puts the average funeral cost at just north of $ 8,000; that's just for the funeral, not
including headstone, cemetary plot, end - of - life medical expenses, and anything else that might come up.
It is necessary to obtain permission before
erecting headstones, but the funeral directors will arrange this also.
The Daughters of Charity said: «Once the full list of names of those buried in the plots
without headstones in St Mary's Cemetery has been verified, we will work with the families and their representatives on a new memorial stone naming and honouring all the children buried there.»
they'll say, and there will be a moment of silence next to a hastily
made headstone constructed from a Tang canister and Velveeta box.
The Bedford cemetery out here in New Hampshire has
headstones showing people lived into their 80s and 90s in the 1600s and I'm pretty sure they did it without coconut oil.
With thousands of moss - covered
headstones dating back to the 1600s, the cemetery is the final resting place of many Quincy men who served in wars... was raised by a single mother in Somerville.
The payout
covers headstone purchase, funeral services, casket, cremation and similar one - time expenses.
The Foundation also provides support for families with children currently in treatment and assists families who have lost a child to cancer with funeral or
headstone expenses.
For the cemetery service, you will have to bear various charges such as internment costs, opening and closing service,
headstone installation as well as burial vaults.
Every time anti-Semitism is brushed aside as Twitter trolls or spray - painted swastikas on a synagogue and busted - up
Jewish headstones are dismissed as youthful pranks, the complacency gives terrorists another reason to believe that they, too, can target the Jewish state and Jewish people with a fair number of westerners looking in the other direction.
While the rest of the neighborhood is busy turning their front yards into altars of darkness with their fake spider webs, ghoul - inviting carved pumpkins and
plastic headstones, you've got other — dare...
In «
Candid Headstone,» a poem intended to serve as his grim epitaph, he does offer a clue — but so delicately that only those who already knew of the connection between Juster and Astrue could get the pun:
In a village near Gersik, northwest of Surabaya on the island of Java, a
loose headstone from a grave has been found which bears an Arabic epitaph in Kufic script saying that the grave held the remains of a woman who died in 475 or 495 (A.D. 1082 or 1102)-- the uncertainty is due to the difficulty in deciphering one word which may be either seventy or ninety.
Last year my mom and I had a great time creating little ghoulish desserts for a contest, complete with royal
icing headstones, frightened black cats and the whole nine yards.
To his right he can see Arlington National Cemetery, endless rows of white
headstones against the green grass.
Here they come like a herd of happy elk, down Newgate Street, turning off at St. Andrews, milling past an old cemetery with crazily
angled headstones, thin and flat like long tea wafers, past the Northumberland Arms and Richard Charlton, Ltd., which deals in Bass ale, and up the hill to the ground, a starkly simple stadium with stands that are more like big sheds and unsophisticated light towers at each of the four corners.
A haunted house,
graveyard headstones and a creepy carved pumpkin — I love this steel hanging basket bracket by Metal Magpie.
Sarah Wearne had the original idea of putting on a website photographs of
CWGC headstones to document the brief personal inscriptions from loved ones.
Visibly moved by private thoughts, the scientist touches a
simple headstone and leaves beside it a tribute he wrote for the man buried here, a man he calls a hero.
Though the university bursar was not keen on the idea of
headstones littering the campus, the engineers have been allowed to leave one in place to see how well it weathers.
To me, the internet seemed to offer an obvious way to fulfil Kathryn's wish — certainly more so than a
dramatic headstone or funerary monument.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear of
headstones saying «Keto didn't save me» — that's because they weren't doing it right!
It's so emotional visiting this cemetery and seeing first hand the
endless headstones that represent each life lost so we can enjoy the freedoms we tend to take for granted.
S.E. Branch, however, is memorialized in his hometown: The cemetery is no more than an unsheltered triangle within spitting distance of the main road, but Branch lies under the
family headstone.
This British horror spoof was conceived as a star vehicle for then - popular TV comedian Kenny Everett, who plays an occult scientist whose team of paranormal researchers are measuring psychic disturbances at a rural English estate called «
Headstone Manor.»
For just $ 70 you can have the above 18 × 24 screenprinted poster featuring a new stylized look at Michael Myers designed by Gary Pullin, as well as the limited edition T - shirt pictured below designed by Justin Osborne, featuring a classic montage of all the main characters from the film, plus a Judith
Myers headstone resin magnet, Rabbit in Red replica matchbook memopad, prismatic sticker, and a collector's box.
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makeshift headstone in the mass grave outside of San Joaquin Parish in the province of Leyte, Philippines.